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Witness location : Chowerup (Australia) (23 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 45 min

Mild rumbling, no damage

Witness location : Upper Warren (Australia) (58 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 46 min

Shaking strong

Witness location : Manjimup (Australia) (71 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 23 min

Scary

Witness location : Manjimup (Australia) (71 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 268 min

Could hear a slight rumble then it got louder and the house started to shake and then got even louder and a bit more violent, lucky it wasn't larger than 5.3

Witness location : Manjimup (Australia) (71 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 34 min

scary, strong

Witness location : Manjimup (Australia) (71 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 531 min

We heard a long low rumble..then the walls, windows and contents were shaking, rattling and swaying.

Witness location : Mount Barker (Australia) (72 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

Seemed to last for ages - the windows and doors were all rattling.  Probably was only about 1 minute.

Witness location : Hay (Australia) (80 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 67 min

Heard a long rumble, couch was rocking, pot plants quivered for about 1 minute

Witness location : Bridgetown-Greenbushes (Australia) (81 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 56 min

Noticed the TV shaking and husband was trying to work out what the loud noise was then saw comments on Facebook that there had been an earthquake and it all made sense

Witness location : Bridgetown (Australia) (83 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 26 min

Lasted for about fifty seconds

Witness location : Katanning (Australia) (94 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 17 min

No damage - rural property

Witness location : Lowlands (Australia) (97 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 46 min

Holy shitballs !! Is there going to be anymore or godfobid bigger???

Witness location : Donnybrook-Balingup (Australia) (105 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

That felt quite unnerving. My house on stilts was shaking and the pictures on the walls were moving. I've only ever felt the earth shake like that in Bali.

Witness location : Albany (Australia) (113 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 78 min

My husband was the one who felt it. He was sitting on his chair in the lounge room when he felt it shake.

Witness location : Albany (Australia) (114 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 22 min

The whole house shook & we heard a rumbling

Witness location : Albany (Australia) (118 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 18 min

Ran outside, definitely unsettling with the shaking and everything rattling.

Witness location : Albany (Australia) (118 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 5 min

Shake and rumble

Witness location : Albany (Australia) (118 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

Whole house shook, car alarms going off.

Witness location : Collie (Australia) (128 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 27 min

It was ok

Witness location : Glen Iris (Australia) (158 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 69 min

Sitting in my car and felt like was being rocked side to side but was no wind, checked reverse cameras as thought someone was playing a practical joke ... husband felt it in Eaton too.

Witness location : Bunbury (Australia) (162 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 25 min

Slight shaking and we are in Bunbury. Felt the house move.

Witness location : Busselton (Australia) (162 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 34 min

I thought someone was under my bed shaking it, but my blinds and door were moving too. Then it rocked gently for maybe 30 seconds. Definitely a ghost.

Witness location : Busselton (Australia) (162 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 31 min

Was sitting in bed and felt the whole bed move. My partner witnessed his desk and computer monitor shaking. Went on for over 10seconds

Witness location : Busselton (Australia) (162 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

Very mild effect that caused the blinds to shake and windows to rattle, recognizable from a stronger one experienced in Bali last month. Lasted about 5 seconds.

Witness location : Augusta-Margaret River Shire (Australia) (169 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 178 min

It was a werid feeling. I thought it was my partner shaking his leg as we were sitting on the couch but relised it wasnt & what was going on :-/

Witness location : Margaret River (Australia) (174 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 22 min

The effects were felt more upstairs than downstairs. Family members had a brief disoriented feeling or felt like falling of chair, bottles shook on tables, computer monitors were shaking

Witness location : Augusta-Margaret River Shire (Australia) (181 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 179 min

We felt the effects in Prevelly. I was sitting with my feet on the floor and felt the tiles shaking

Witness location : Busselton (Australia) (188 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

My plants were all moving in my house

Witness location : Lake Grace (Australia) (199 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 65 min

Lake Grace . Felt it indistinguishable. AT 13:02. No damages

Witness location : Mandurah (Australia) (227 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 11240 min

I'm in Erskine, Mandurah and was sitting in a recliner chair that was joltted forward. Vertical blinds were moving. I posted on FB that I had a ghost. Wasn't til then that friends told me about quake. Freaky feeling and to feel so far away was pretty amazing. Glad no one was hurt.

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (229 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 44 min

Riding on Scateboard and felt very minor shake like a .5 in Mandurah

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (235 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 47 min

I have never experienced anything near something like this 
I was lying in bed and the bed started moving and then the cutlery in the drawers shook then nothing

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (237 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 18566 min

Felt earth beneath my feet gently swaying left to right , 1 metre , lasted for approx 45 seconds in total , raced outside into backyard and waited for it to stop , birds and dogs completely silent it was a freaky experience

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (237 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 29 min

Felt the car i was sitting in shake. Thought it was odd as the wind wasn't strong.

Witness location : Secret Harbour (Australia) (238 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 229 min

Felt in secret harbour near perth

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (253 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 10 min

I just parked the car and it was shaking

Witness location : Oakford (Australia) (253 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 74 min

I was lying on the bed in the timber stump wooden floor section of the house and felt a shake/tremor and the ornaments on the bedhead rattled. The pictures in the toilet room are hanging crooked this is in the concrete slab section of the house. It left me feeling a bit dizzy. My brother who was lying on the loungeroom floor felt it too.

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (254 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 14 min

Kitchen window rattled very briefly. Sounded like someone was knocking on it - never heard it make that sound before. Only recognised it from the earthquake I felt in bali

Witness location : Armadale (Australia) (255 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 420 min

sitting in caravan shook the whole van for a few seconds  birds n dogs quiet till it hit the all barking n birds  calling loud

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (259 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 40 min

lasted 5 seconds or so only.

Witness location : Success (Australia) (262 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 119 min

Was lying in bed and felt a swaying motion, I live in a apartment it was a very noticeable feeling.

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (265 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 15 min

My chair swayed for a good few seconds.

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (267 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 24 min

My chair rocked for about 3 seconds. The door and ceiling fans swayed and the water in the swimming pool sloshed gently. It was very disconcerting!!

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (278 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 247 min

Hubby and I were dropping off a car at my elderly Mums on  great eastern hwy,chidlow side of Sawyers Valley 11.30am Saturday! I went inside to put food away and definitely felt like I was wobbly. On my feet inside her kitchen! I questioned hubby and he said “funny that I felt similar when I locked her car up in the carport?”

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (278 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 23 min

The patio was making odd noises and the shed door was flopping a bit.

Witness location : Parkerville (Australia) (280 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 47 min

Whole house shook. Have a wooden house on stumps... definitely realized it was an earthquake straight away. No damage.

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (282 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 15 min

Felt the chair slightly shake

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (287 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 71 min

Australian Government rated this quake as a M5.6

Witness location : Perth (Australia) (288 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 34 min

Incredible loud rumbling sound, very unerving and then after i left the toilet the earthquake occurred.

Witness location : Bakers Hill (Australia) (289 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 54 min

No only last a few seconds. We both felt a wobble in the chairs we were sitting in.

Witness location : Clarkson (Australia) (315 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 1591 min

People felt 10km from me...I felt nothing....spewin. 😜